Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Res Ipsa wrote:I'm happy to apply the same standard that I applied to Kavanaugh: take it seriously and investigate it.
#don'tbelieveher #investigatesexualassaultclaims #outaccusers
Oh, well I think you'd find yourself on the outside of most Leftists' on the issue, at least from what I saw on the Interwebz, comments sections, and here. Even after being investigated it wasn't good enough.
So, if the FBI did a quickie for the candidate you'd be good? You wouldn't #justbelieveher?
- Doc
Well, I don't formulate my opinions based on trying to figure out what "the left" decides. Honestly, Doc, I think the whole black or white thinking approach to this issue is silly. I am still critical of the K investigation because it was limited for political reasons. I think the investigators should have been given the discretion to determine which witnesses to interview and given the time to track down whatever evidence they thought was reasonable. I don't know who would have the jurisdiction to investigate this, but I think it should be checked out.
I don't #justbelieveher was ever intended to mean that anytime an allegation of sexual assault is made that the accused should be thrown in prison. Maybe because I've been in the law biz for so long, it feels natural to separate "I believe you" from "There's not enough evidence to win a criminal or civil case." The message that many women seem to get from the interaction with law enforcement, hospital staff, etc. is that their claim is met with hyper skepticism. And when police departments fail to investigate based on an officer's gut instinct or large numbers of rape kits just don't get processed, the message that I think is being sent is "I don't believe you enough to even investigate what you are telling me.
So, personally, that's the way I think about "justbelieveher" -- believe her enough to take the allegation seriously and investigate it. Don't treat it with hyper skepticism because of someone else's reputation. We have statistics that show sexual assault isn't rare, yet any allegation of sexual assault is me with a concerted effort not to believe the accuser.
So, Doc, do you think this case is a better or worse one than Ford's in terms of it being a political hit job from the start?
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
